St. Joseph, Michigan

We have stayed in St. Joseph an extra day; Sylvia from Heavenly Ours has been feeling unwell the past few days and finally decided that she needed to go to a clinic. The marina owner kindly drove her to the clinic, where she was seen, diagnosed and treated by a nurse practitioner. Hopefully she will be feeling better in the next couple of days. The rest of us went to visit Wolf's Marine, a huge marine store in Benton Harbour, so within walking distance from here. Found lots of stuff we needed or wanted; the guy from the store then drove us all back to the marina here. This afternoon walked into St. Joseph, got lunch and did some shopping. Ate lunch at the Chocolate Factory, actually they serve really good soup and sandwiches. This evening, NaMata came into the marina, they had left Luddington at 5 this morning, and had been travelling since then. They were the people that had to leave the US for 15 days when we crossed at Drummond Island, nice to see them again. We plan to stay here another day because the forecast for tomorrow is for gale force winds; hope to move south to New Buffalo on Wednesday and then to Chicago on Thursday, weather permitting. Much warmer today, the temperature is in the 70s, first time we have seen that since the beginning of September, and the forecast is for a T of 81 tomorrow, should be nice.